Stop Toxic People In Their Tracks | Navy SEAL Wisdom

My experience is that bad management always covers for their bad managers and team leads. They do not want to solve the issues.

I have often told my kids, if someone is acting out and hard to get along with, there is probably something in their life that you don’t know about. I have had to work with some nasty people and I just keep everything straight business, not sharing stories or personal information.

This dismisses the immaturity that exists in the workplace and how many levels of deception are always at play.

Everyone is useful, no one is necessary. Stay humble.

I worked for a company where people on all levels were toxic. I moved on, this company wasn’t worthy of my efforts and talent.

Dealing with nutty managers and co-workers is all part of the challenge of work. It takes tremendous discipline and maturity to deal with troubled people but it educates you emotionally.

Narcissistic bosses are the worst to deal with.

From my experience the laziest people are the most toxic

Cemeteries are full of indispensable people!

My coworker is lazy. Constantly unmotivated. He’s depressed and lost right now and I am sick and tired of his shit. Makes every excuse in the book. “My dad died, lost my job of 12 years, got really sick, etc”. I wish this dude would get his shit together and man up. I work alone by the way…

I'm dealing with a new 28 year old supervisor who thinks she has the 'supervisor privilege' literally taking advantage of her job (texting/personal phone calls constanly, sitting at her desk doing nothing) - Im 40 &I know exactly what I am doing on my job, but something is not right with her. idk...

We need to teach our children how to handle toxic people and bullies in their youth. I told my son that the teacher, coach or student that grate on your nerves in school are still out in the real world when you become an adult.

Hats off to the CEO for recognizing the problem, so many managers shrug their shoulders when this occurs.

Ego is kept in check by strong leadership period. You do not get paid to come to work and dislike others.

I work with a toxic asf lady... the best way to deal with her is to ignore her... stop responding to her emails etc... people are only in power for as long as you continue to subordinate yourself... as soon as you remove yourself from the situation the whole thing come crashing down like a house of cards

I've seen alpt of people in tenure positions actually sabotage new good employees because they saw them as a threat. It's a sad, and a very too often occurrence.

Hate to be the bad guy but... sometimes everyone else is actually the problem. It is possible that the "problem guy" is actually surrounded by idiots.

I am now in a leadership role and have come to understand that it's not always about recruiting the most qualified but also about recruiting the right person. If your coworkers hate your guts after multiple jobs then the problem may be you.

I know that know one gives a crap about some random strangers advice on the internet…but learn my advice here. Keep your coworkers close, but keep them coworkers. They don’t need to be your best friend, or know every personal detail in your life. Nor do you need to know their personal business. That’s the key to success in the workplace. It’s a balance.

If you have time, your advice is rock solid. If not… If your product is software and if you have a hard deadline to build it and if the toxic employee is indispensable, then you have to ask yourself “what is the objective?”. If the objective is a social experiment, then take all the time in the world and fix your employee. If your objective is to build quality software on time, then tighten your chin strap. You’re too late to send your toxic, but valuable employee home and Mr. Toxic doesn’t have time to train his replacement. There comes a point in software projects where throwing more people at the problem will not help and taking away a key player, albeit toxic, can’t help either. Talk to Mr. Toxic. If that helps, problem solved. Otherwise, get this iteration of software development behind you and replace Mr. Toxic at the beginning of the next production cycle. The sun will come out, birds will sing and the entire culture of the team will improve.